Media Watch- Obamas message loses its meaning Sep 10, 2009
But the media-savvy President Obama should know that such a direct address to schoolchildren would be fraught with problems and suspicions. Remember that this is the administration which asked Americans to email the White House and report folks who had the incorrect facts about health care. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
Fresh Fake News Jul 10, 2009
In the latest installment, Katie Couric is first made to trill electronically and then to perkily subject herself to a bit of direct address: "Katie Coo, baby boo, you got swagger like a star/ Don't stop, real talk, we gon' take it to the charts." In its crude and larky way, "Auto-Tune the News" suggests a Beck remix of a Howard Kurtz column. Of the two, "Auto-Tune" comes closer to achieving something like satire. (Slate)
Crisis and renewal in Argentina Feb 8, 2009
Farther along, I'd come across graffiti on walls, not the tags I was used to but whimsical lines, written in direct address form: "Flor, I need things to go on happening between us, your astronaut." I'd turn a corner and see, in the wide, dark doorway of a garage, a man standing in the center, butchering meat. As I wandered, captivated, dislocated, I tried to match what I was seeing with the stories I'd heard from my husband about his childhood city, finding that sometimes the vision fit and... (International Herald Tribune -- At Home)
Obama reaches out to blacks in L.A. Feb 8, 2009
His speech was the most direct address on race by any of the major presidential candidates who were in California over the weekend for the Democratic National Convention in San Diego. And it came as the major Democratic contenders are vying for African American support. (Yahoo News -- African Americans)
Will Ferrell relives 8 years of George W. Bush Feb 7, 2009
The evenings format is direct address. Ferrell talks right to the theater audience about the Bush family and then segues into the mans political career first as governor of Texas and then as president. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
